Usage of this module is expecting VLC's SDK's header file explicitly, Am I missing something?

[TasleemaShaik]

Hello,

I'm trying to use this package for my small Go project I have been trying to implement.

When I'm trying to use this package, program is expecting VLC SDK need to be available for one of it's header file. I'm still trying to debug if any work around is available. Just for the reference, I'm creating this.

The part of the code I'm trying to use

if err := libvlc.Init("--quiet"); err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}
defer libvlc.Release()
player, err := libvlc.NewPlayer()
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}
defer player.Stop()
media, err := player.LoadMedia("sample.mp4")
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}
defer media.Release()

Error I'm facing

 go build
# github.com/adrg/libvlc-go/v3
..\..\..\..\go\pkg\mod\github.com\adrg\libvlc-go\[email protected]\av.go:4:11: fatal error: vlc/vlc.h: No such file or directory
    4 | // #include <vlc/vlc.h>
      |           ^~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

The line of code that is giving this failure

libvlc-go/v3/av.go

Line 4 in f2c85a1

// #include <vlc/vlc.h>

[adrg]

Hi @TasleemaShaik,

You are not missing anything. On your development machine, you need to have the libVLC SDK (shared libraries and header files) installed in order to compile any application using this library. There isn't really a way around that.

If you want to redistribute your already built application, then you would only need to bundle your binary and the libVLC shared libraries. Of course, this is dependent on the operating system you are targeting. On Windows for example, you can just distribute your compiled binary and libvlc.dll (in the same directory as your binary).

Please see the Prerequisites section in the README for information on how to install the libVLC SDK on different operating systems.

[TasleemaShaik]

Hi @adrg,

Thank you so much for the reply.

That's right. I was trying that actually. There are some other issues for executing the code from README itself.
(i) Incompatibility of libVLC SDK and App versions.
(ii) Linker errors because NuGet package provides DLLs (and possibly MSVC‑style import libraries) instead of the MinGW‑compatible import libraries that GCC expects when we use the -lvlc flag.

Once I figure out, will update here clearly and close the issue.

Thanks,
Tasleema.